Inspections of services for adults
How we inspect
Our inspections last for a number of months. We work closely with the partnership to co-ordinate our inspection activities.
We have a range of ways to gather information that will help us to assess how to what degree integrated services are helping to improve outcomes for people experiencing care. These include:
asking for information from the partnership
speaking to people experiencing care
speaking with staff, managers and leaders across the partnership
reading people’s records.
We communicate regularly with the partnership and keep them up to date with our findings.
After the inspection, we publish a report about our findings on the websites of the Care Inspectorate and Healthcare Improvement Scotland. The report explains what we have found, identifies strengths and points out areas that could be improved. We agree an Improvement plan with the partnership to address those areas.
Getting involved
The voices of people experiencing care are at the centre of our inspection. We will take as many opportunities as we can to involve people and talk to them about their experiences of health and social care services.
We have developed an engagement framework to support all our engagement activity. The framework sets out 12 statements about positive outcomes and experiences that we will speak with people about.
More information
Full information about our current joint inspections of services for adults with learning disabilities can be found in our partnership guide. The partnership guide sets out the inspection process step by step and provides all the information that partnerships need to manage their part in the inspection.